Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree yesterday confirmed low take-up of a $742 million federal program targeting “assault style” firearms. Figures followed in-house Privy Council research warning the program would be a costly failure: "Your plan is over the spring and the summer to deploy RCMP officers to go door to door?" READ MORE
The RCMP has set minimum quotas on equity hiring to give preference to “those with key skills and diverse life experiences,” said a report. The document is dated March 20, three days before the release of an audit critical of recruitment: "The status quo is no longer sustainable." READ MORE
The CBC has apologized and acknowledged numerous inaccuracies in a report that falsely depicted Senator Marilou McPhedrean (Man.) as a “top spender.” The story by reporter John Paul Tasker was prompted by a false tip from another Senator’s office, the CBC Ombudsman disclosed yesterday: "I am sorry." READ MORE
Drivers can buy any Canadian-made electric vehicle they like over $50,000 to qualify for rebates so long as it’s a Dodge Charger, records show. The Charger made in Windsor, Ont. will be the only eligible model by year’s end under terms of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s program: "What makes and models of vehicles currently produced in Canada qualify?" READ MORE
Canada could not raise corporate taxes without running the risk of “hollowing out” industry, says a newly declassified memo by a Liberal Senate appointee. Senator Peter Harder (Ont.) wrote the memo as a deputy industry minister: "Why is hollowing out such a concern?" READ MORE
The Department of Finance will not disclose the findings of an internal review into allegations it invested millions in a Chinese Communist Party front. The department censored contents of a 2025 briefing note to Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne: "The Bank undertook its own internal management review." READ MORE
The future of cabinet’s $90 billion regional high speed rail venture yesterday fell in doubt after Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre pledged any future Conservative government would cancel it as a costly fantasy. Promoters estimate construction will require at minimum a decade’s worth of federal financing: "Ridiculous." READ MORE
I don’t know why I wanted to enter politics. I know he respected politicians a lot. Politics for me was a calling I took extremely seriously. I threw myself into it with everything I had. I failed my family. In the process I was not the father I should have been. That’s something I can’t take back. I’m sure Hitler worked very, very hard. I’m sure he woke up every morning and went to every event and I’m sure that he was in every place his party told him to be, but at the end of the day I do not think that our values should stem from that.
